Re: [PATCH] wrong description of string-rindex

[Ian Price]

Nala Ginrut <address@hidden> writes:

> - Scheme Procedure: string-rindex s char_pred [start [end]]
>      Search through the string S from right to left, returning the index
>      of the last occurrence of a character which
> ------
> It's actually 'first occurrence', according to the activity of function.
> And it's nonsense for 'last occurrence' since string-index does the same
> work.
I'm going to be honest, I don't think either of these are particularly
great wordings. They are both misleading in different ways, I feel.
Rather than 'first' or 'last', it would be better to use 'leftmost' and 
'rightmost'

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